Third Person Solipsism, 2023
Mixed Medium
“Third Person Solipsism is a contemporary art piece that encompasses two characteristics of contemporary art: appropriation and representation. It appropriated a portrait of Sharbat Gula (an Afghan refugee in a Pakistani camp), taken by National Geographic reporter Steven McCurry in 1984. It was an iconic and impactful piece: her piercing gaze and tattered clothes became a symbol of her war sufferings. I tried to tell the story of my own suffering through her, by replacing her face with my own in my adaptation, and adding newspaper cutouts in the background that explained my “battle”: student culture.”
